It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way (K.Marx, Letter to F.Engels on the Indian Mutiny)
Sunday, May 31, 2020
EDGAR VARESE AMERIQUES
EDGAR VARESE HAD A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON FRANK ZAPPA,
LISTEN CAREFULLY FOR ODDBALL SOUNDS, LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF SPIKE MULLIGAN, THEN THERE ARE REPETITIVE THEMES THAT YOU
WOULD SWEAR YOU HEAR ON UNCLE MEAT.
WHEN I CAME ACROSS THIS IN THE SEVENTIES I THOUGHT
IT HAD BEEN COMPOSED IN THE FIFTIES, I WAS SURPRISED TO FIND
THIS MODERNIST PIECE WAS COMPOSED IN 1921
THE REASON I AM POSTING THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE CONTINUOUS
SOUND OF A POLICE CAR SIREN IN THE BACKGROUND.
WHICH REMINDS ME OF MY NEIGHBOURHOOD WHICH HAS THE REGULAR
SOUND OF SIRENS BECAUSE I LIVE NEAR A POLICE STATION, HOSPITAL, FIRE HALL.
FOR SIX WEEK THERE WAS THE MOST AMAZING SILENCE OF NO SIRENS, NO CONSTRUCTION, NO TRAFFIC NOISES, REDUCED NOISE OF THE LRT.
THEN ON THE DAY EDMONTON OPENED FOR BUSINESS THE SIRENS BLARED
AS THE SNOWBIRDS BLASTED THE SOUND BARRIER
AHH BLISSFUL PEACE SHATTERED AGAIN.
HERE IS ANOTHER MODERNIST COMPOSER FROM THE SAME ERA
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